Ocotepec
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- This article is about Ocotepec, Morelos. Other similarly named towns exist: Ocotepec, Puebla; Ocotepec, Chiapas.
Ocotepec is a town in the Mexican state of Morelos.
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[edit] Name
The town's name comes from the Nahuatl ocotl ("pine tree") and tepec ("mountain"); thus, the name of this location means "mountain with pines".
[edit] History
Originally this place was inhabited by the tlahuica culture, then, they became a group under the mexicas rule and they paid tribute to them. They did so until the Spanish conquest was done. While tlahuicas lived in Ocotepec, it was always a separated location from Cuauhnahuac (Cuernavaca) but now days, Ocotepec is considered one of the 48 locations of Cuernavaca municipality.
[edit] Barrios or sectors
Ocotepec is divided in four sections called barrios, and each one has its own religious annual celebration. In the next lines are the actual names of each barrio and the original name in Nahuatl.
- Candelaria (Tlaneui)
- Dolores (Nuluakan)
- Santa Cruz (Xalxokotepazola)
- Ramos (Tlakopan)
[edit] Points of interest
In the center of this location, there is the church dedicated to the Divino Salvador. An important road crosses Ocotepec, the Federal Highway from Cuernavaca to Tepoztlán.
The town is also the site the Nahuatl University of Ocotepec (UNO), an independent institution founded by Mariano Leyva, who studied the ancient prehispanic cultures. In the originality of its buildings, in this University it is interesting to admire the pyramid inspirated style of the architecture. One of the buildings is dedicated to the god Tezcatlipoca, others to Huitzilopochtli, Tlaloc and Xipe Totec.
[edit] See also
- Day of the Dead, celebrated keenly on 1-2 November every year in Ocotopec.
